Forbes January 27, 2026
UnitedHealth Group eked out a fourth quarter profit of $10 million despite a $1.6 billion hit to fourth quarter earnings from a large restructuring charge taken as the healthcare giant works on a financial turnaround.
The company, which last year brought back Stephen Hemsley out of retirement to be chief executive officer, is working on a financial turnaround that includes “re-focusing on key markets, products and geographies, aligning pricing discipline to account for higher medical trends and the impact of health care policy changes” and “re-baselining operations at Optum,” the company said Tuesday in its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 earnings report.
“The company completed wide-ranging actions that were included in a fourth quarter charge of $1.6 billion net of...
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